Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Where is the wireless iTunes Sync?
Posted by on March 31, 2011
A lot of i* devices from Apple have turned up in my household over the last few years, it started with iPods until we all had one (or more!) then an iPad, an iPhone, a MacBook pro and most recently an AirPort Express and most likely an Apple TV in the future (for streaming music [...]
Excellent Book about Cybercrime
Posted by on March 17, 2011
A colleague recommended Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen to me for a recent business trip, so I duly purchased the Kindle edition at the airport and haven’t put it down since. It’s an easy read and provides a fascinating insight into how an American teen got into the computer underground and latterly bigger business crime and [...]
Upgrading to vCloud Director 1.0.1 from GA
Posted by on March 10, 2011
A couple of people have asked recently how complicated it is to upgrade from the GA 1.0 release of vCloud Director to 1.0.1 which was released recently – this is a post of my notes, and I will add as I find new things – I will be doing this in the coming weeks on [...]
vSphere RDP Client Plugin
Posted by on March 8, 2011
Another handy utility from Xtravirt – it adds a shortcut to the right-click context menu in the vSphere client to launch an RDP session to that particular VM. Very useful, of course you’ll need to ensure your admin workstation can get to port 3389/TCP (RDP) on that particular VM, but I find this very useful. [...]
Mac Users, Stop Exposing Yourself to other Hotel Guests
Posted by on March 3, 2011
If you use an Apple Mac (like I do), then maybe you’re happy not to have to be too bothered about all those virii, malware, worms and hackers attacks so don’t bother spending too long on your personal IT security like you did in the Windows days. However, please think about this – I’m currently [...]
Using an Apple Remote Control to drive PowerPoint in a Windows VM using Fusion
Posted by on March 1, 2011
I recently purchased a remote control for my MacBook Pro so that I could use it to control presentations without having to be at the keyboard, rather than opt for anything flashy I just assumed I could use the normal Apple Infra-red Remote Control, install the Bootcamp drivers to my Win7 VM and use it [...]
